Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the
womb, I knew you.”
Genesis 1:26
“Then God said, ‘Let Us
make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness.’”
Psalm 139:15,16
“My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet
unformed.
And in your book they all are written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.”
Psalm 139:14
“I will praise You, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.”
Ephesians 5:16
“redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.”
Romans 13:11,12
“And do this, knowing the time, that now
it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now
our salvation is nearer than when we first
believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand.
Therefore let us cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armor of
light.”
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I
think toward you says the
Lord, thoughts of peace and
not of evil to give you a future
and a hope.”
Ephesians 2:10
“For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk
in them.”
Cardinal Borgia
“I have provided in the course of my
life for everything except death, and
now, alas, I am to die unprepared.”
Elizabeth the First
“All my possessions for one moment
of time.”
Kurt Cobain
(suicide note) “Frances and Courtney,
I’ll be at your altar. Please keep going
Courtney, for Frances. For her life will
be so much happier without me. I love
you. I love you.”
Thomas Hobbs
“I am about to take my last voyage,
a great leap in the dark.”
Prince Henry of
Wales
“Tie a rope round my body, pull me out of
bed, and lay me in ashes, that I may die with
repentant prayers to an offended God. O, I in
vain with for that time I lost with you and
others in vain recreations.”
Socrates
“All of the wisdom of this world is
but a tiny raft upon which we must
set sail when we leave this earth. If
only there was a firmer foundation
upon which to sail, perhaps some
divine word.”
Tony Hancock
(British Comedian)
“Nobody will ever know I existed.
Nothing to leave behind me.
Nothing to pass on. Nobody to
mourn me. That’s the bitterest
blow of all.”
Phillip III
King of France
“What an account I shall have to
give to God! How I should like to
live otherwise than I have lived.”
Aldus Huxley
(humanist)
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been
concerned with the human problem all
one’s life and find at the end that one
has no more to offer by way of advice
than ‘Try and be a little kinder.’”
Karl Marx
“Go on, get out! Last words are for
fools who haven’t said enough!”
Napoleon
“I marvel that where the ambitious
dreams of myself and of Alexander and of
Caesar should have vanished into thin air,
a Judean peasant—Jesus--should be able
to stretch His hands across centuries, and
control the destinies of men and nations.”
Diana (Spencer)
Princess of Wales
“My God. What’s happened?”
(per police files)
James Dean
“My fun days are over.”
Timothy McVeigh
(Invictus)
“I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Trust in God and you shall
have nothing to fear.”
Patrick Henry
“Doctor, I wish you to observe how real
and beneficial the religion of Christ is to
a man about to die…” In his will he
wrote: “This is all the inheritance I
give to my dear family. The religion of
Christ which will give them one which
will make them rich indeed.”
D. L. Moody
“I see earth receding; heaven is
opening. God is calling me.”
William Shakespeare
“I commend my soul into the hands of
God my Creator, hoping and
assuredly believing, through the only
merits of Jesus Christ my Savior, to be
made partaker of life everlasting; and
my body to the earth, whereof it was
made.”
John Milton
(British Poet)
“Death is the great key that
opens the palace of Eternity.”
Daniel Webster
(just before his death): “The great mystery is
Jesus Christ—the gospel. What would the
condition of any of us be if we had not the
hope of immortality?…Thank God, the
gospel of Jesus Christ brought life and
immortality to light.” His last words were:
“I still live.”
Charles Dickens
“I commit my soul to the mercy of God,
through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ, and I exhort my dear children
humbly to try and guide themselves by
the teaching of the New Testament.”
Andrew Jackson
“My dear children, do not grieve for
me…I am my God’s. I belong to Him.
I go but a short time before you, and
…I hope and trust to meet you all in
heaven.”
Jesus
“It is finished!
Father, into Your hands
I commend My Spirit.”
Galatians 6:5-10
“For each one shall bear his own load.
Let him who is taught the word share in
all good things with him who teaches.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, that he will also
reap.
For he who sows to his flesh will of the
flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the
Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
“And let us not grow weary while doing
good, for in due season we shall reap if we do
not lose heart.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us
do good to all, especially the household of
faith.”
2 Corinthians 5:8-10
“We are confident, yes, well pleased
rather to be absent from the body and to be
present with the Lord.
Therefore we make it our aim, whether
present or absent, to be well pleasing to
Him.
For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ, that each one may
receive the things done in the body,
according to what he has done, whether
good or bad.”
1 Corinthians 3:11-15
“For no other foundation can anyone lay
than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if anyone builds on this foundation
with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
straw,
each one’s work will become manifest; for
the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each
one’s work, of what sort it is.”
“If anyone’s work which he has built on
it endures, he will receive a reward.
If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer
loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as
through fire.”
Revelation 22:12,13
“And behold, I am coming
quickly, and My reward is
with Me, to give to every
one according to his work.
I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and
the End, the First and the
Last.”
Matthew 6:19-21
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures
on earth where moth and rust destroy and
where thieves break in and steal;
but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys and where thieves do not break in
and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your
heart will be also.”
MY FRIEND
My friend, I stand in judgment now,
And feel that you’re to blame somehow.
On Earth I walked with you day by day,
And never did you point the way.
You knew the Lord in truth and glory,
But never did you tell the story.
My knowledge then was very dim;
You could have led me safe to Him.
Though we lived together here on Earth
You never told me of the second birth.
And now I stand this day condemned,
Because you failed to mention Him.
You taught me many things that’s true;
I called you “friend” and trusted you.
But I learn now that it’s too late,
And you could have kept me from this fate.
We walked by day and talked by night,
And yet you showed me not the light.
You let me live, and love, and die,
You knew I’d never live on high.
Yes, I called you “friend” in life,
And trusted you through joy and strife,
And, yet, on coming to this dreadful end
I cannot, now, call you “my friend.”